These days, smartphone batteries are competent enough to get us through a day at work with medium usage, but heavy use starts kills. Devices like the Galaxy Note 3 (3200 mAh) incorporate larger batteries, while devices like the Droid MAXX are made for large batteries (the Droid MAXX has a very impressive 3500 mAh battery). This new Philips phone is simply insane.

The general specs are incredibly unimpressive, bordering on the low-end of the smartphone spectrum. The 5-inch display features a qHD resolution, the internals are a 1.3GHz MediaTek quad core, 1GB of RAM, 4GB of storage with a microSD slot, an 8MP camera, and Android 4.2. But the battery is a whopping 5300 mAh, far exceeding most small tablet batteries.

This device boasts almost one and a half days of talk time and about two months of standby. And thickness doesn’t take a huge hit; the device is a reasonable 11.4mm thick. Not slim by any means, but not incredibly chunky. It’s almost two and a half millimeters thinner than the original Motorola DROID.

Yes, most of us would not buy such a low spec’d device. However, that battery just makes me drool. Would you sacrifice some thinness for a larger battery in your current device? Tell us in the comments.

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surethom

Very nice but with 4gb of storage it will be full & unusable in a month or 2, but may even this phone would be for the battery not for jnstalling apps?

piggypigs

mmm that wasn’t even the point of this article. The writer is asking if we are willing to sacrifice some of the “thinness” of our smartphone, whichever rocks your boat, so that your next smartphone that catches your fancy can last more than one day of use, at the expense of some bulk.

lewis

it would be usable because you could put a 128gb micro sd card in it

:D

redraider133

I wish more manufacturers would add a little more thickness and have a huge battery like this. Battery life>> paper thin phones anyday

BlazeHN

That is something you can easily achieve right now, for example there is 10,000 mAh Note 3 batteries wich adds extra bulk to the phone, they even come with their own back cover. There is medium options too like 6,000 mAh for example. Most battery removable phones have this options.